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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable. Sidebar on “what is an ‘API?’

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HIMSS22 in Riyadh: Exploring cross-border collaboration in the Middle East

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Using data from partnered countries, it will reportedly monitor and assess a number of key performance indicators that will help shape decisions, such as faster claim approvals, and focusing on preventive care in the Gulf nation and beyond. A programme such as EJADAH would have been challenging to implement without data, of course.

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Ensuring Precision in Patient Identity: Modern Approaches to Master Data Management

Healthcare IT Today

When you look at how much data is passing through Healthix, it’s kind of hard to comprehend. 50 million patients with 105+ million inbound data is a lot of health data. It’s always interesting to see how an HIE is approaching their exchange of data.

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Personal Health LLM's to emerge in HealthTech 2024?

Lloyd Price

LLMs are essentially AI models trained on massive amounts of health data and text. What can Personal health LLMs do? Health Coaching: Imagine a virtual coach that can analyze your health data (with your permission, of course) and provide personalized recommendations for diet, exercise, and overall well-being.

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BetterHelp Investigation by FTC & Privacy Update by DOJ

Telebehavioral Health Institute

The FTC announcement clarified that email addresses constitute personally identifiable health information because email addresses identify visitors as people seeking mental health care. “Personal information” may be “health information” simply due to the nature of the product or service.

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QHIN Reactions at the ONC Annual Meeting

Healthcare IT Today

They’re right in many ways when it comes to the health data sharing that’s already occurring and the limitations for what QHINs are going to share to start. QHINs on their own aren’t going to full solve the data sharing problem. Of course, the proof is really in the pudding.

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Security and Privacy Hurdles Plaguing AI-Driven Health Services

Healthcare IT Today

Sriram Rajagopalan , Enterprise Agile Evangelist at Inflectra Today’s most significant risk regarding security and privacy issues in health services is consumers’ need for more awareness of personal health information. Of course, with every new technology comes abuse of that technology. What do I mean?

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